title: INDIV-3D. A new model for INdividual Data Integration and Visualisation using spatial coordinates.
abstract: This work describes a new three-dimensional model for the integration and visualization of comprehensive individual health-related information. The model could be used to represent longitudinal datasets corresponding to any kind of biomedical data (genome, phenome, exposome) relative to a single individual or to populations. Analogously with geographical information systems this model includes different layers at each time point, which are associated with different sets of biomedical data. Each data element represented in this model receives two angular and one linear (temporal) coordinates. This new model could be able to represent virtually any kind of biomedical data including those captured in real-time such as self-monitoring activities or other exposome-related information.
authors.affiliation: Health & Biomedical Research Unit, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lopez-Campos
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bellazzi
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martin-Sanchez
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003199:Computer Systems; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface